3rd Annual Conference - Entanglements of New Materialisms

@The Post-Humanities Hub of the Tema Insitute, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
(Pre-COST IS1307)

25th and 26th of May, 2012
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Organiser(s)

Dr. Cecilia Åsberg

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The aim of this conference was to map out the entaglements of new materialisms across disciplines (and post-disciplines), fields of research, theoretical strands, conceptual practices, onto-epistemologies, methodologies and materials that are poised to make a difference in the world.

Moving between media and cultural studies, feminist theory and science studies, from phenomenology to zoontology and human-animal studies, from sexual difference to posthumanist ethics, and back again (yet never the same), new materialisms seems to emerge (even to antedate itself) across a diverse range of scholarly fields characterised by transversal dialogues and post-conventional attention to the entanglements (and the inseparability) of natures and cultures, the assemblages of meaning and materiality, and the performativity of human and non-human relations.

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COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'.

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With the changing of societies on local, national and international scales owing to economic, ecological, political and technological developments and crises, a reorganized academic landscape can be observed to be emerging. Scholarship strives to become increasingly interdisciplinary in order to grasp and examine the unfolding complexity of ongoing ecological, socio-cultural and politico-economic changes. Additionally, academics forge... Read more or find out Who's Who

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Working Groups focus on four key areas of research

Working Group One

Genealogies of New Materialisms; examines and intervenes in canonization processes by compiling a web-based bibliography, coordinating the OST 068/13 8 EN... Read more

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New Materialisms on the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences; seeks to develop new materialisms at the boundaries of the human and natural sciences. The group focuses on how European new materialisms can rework the ‘Two Cultures' gap... Read more

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New Materialisms Embracing the Creative Arts; brings together European researchers, artists, museum professionals, and other activists with a keen interest in the material... Read more

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New Materialisms Tackling Economical and Identity – Political Crises and Organizational Experiments... Read more

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Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter’

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